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<h2><font color="#669900" face="Arial">Using the keyboard </font></h2>
<p><font face="Arial">You can do most navigation using the keyboard; click on 
link for a <a href="editkeychart.htm">full chart of default keyboard shortcuts</a>. 
You can see the keyboard shortcuts in the popup menu of the node.&nbsp; Some of 
the shortcuts which you do not see that way follow. </font></p>
<p><font color="#669900" face="Arial">Page Up and Page Down </font></p>
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  <li style="list-style-type: none"><font face="Arial">scroll by a large skip up 
  and down </font></li>
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<p><font color="#669900" face="Arial">Ctrl+Page Up and Ctrl+Page Down </font>
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  <li style="list-style-type: none"><font face="Arial">scroll by a large skip 
  left and up </font></li>
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<p><font face="Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Nice for having a quick glance above 
and then continuing below again </font></p>
<p><font color="#669900" face="Arial">Escape </font></p>
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  <li style="list-style-type: none"><font face="Arial">Move to root </font></li>
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<p><font color="#669900" face="Arial">Arrows </font></p>
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  <li style="list-style-type: none"><font face="Arial">Move around </font></li>
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<p><font face="Arial"></li>
You can select a range of nodes by holding shift and moving around with the 
cursor arrows or Page Up and Page Down. </font></p>
<p><font face="Arial">You can replace the text in the current node and start 
editing by typing letters. You can also edit a node by pressing the home or end 
key, as well as F2. </font></p>
<p><font face="Arial">Technical users can change the keyboard settings in
<a href="customuser.htm">user.properties</a>. </font></p>
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<h4><font color="#669900" face="Arial">Keyboard while editing a long node </font>
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<p><font face="Arial">By default, Enter finishes editing a long node, and 
Ctrl+Enter enters a new line. By unchecking the check box &quot;Enter confirms&quot; you 
can reverse those function, i.e., Enter enters a new line and Ctrl+Enter 
finishes editing. You can set the default value of that check box in 
user.properties. Moreover, the value of the box is saved during a session of 
FreeMind. </font></p>
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<h4><font color="#669900" face="Arial">Changes in user interface of recent 
version </font></h4>
<p><font face="Arial">Some key settings have been redefined to conform with 
shared standards or intuitive use. Some of the new key settings are modeled on 
Microsoft tools. </font></p>
<p><font face="Arial">New key settings include Enter for creating siblings below 
the node, Insert for creating new children, F2 for editing nodes -- here the 
Microsoft influence is apparent while there is no intuitive reason to have F2 
for node editing. But once you get used to it in all the applications you use, 
you want to have that one in FreeMind too, of course. </font></p>
<p><font face="Arial">The changes are customizable in user.properties to an 
extent. If you are a technical user and you do not like the changes, change the 
settings in user.properties. </font></p>
<p><font face="Arial">To copy your selection to the clipboard when you are 
editing a node, press the right mouse button and choose copy.</font></p>
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